That's why our effective online training is self-paced, offers support, and is designed for hard-working BAS professionals like you. Smart Buildings Academy, formerly Building Automation Monthly, offers Smart Buildings training tracks for technicians, designers, programmers, integrators, sales teams, and project managers.
Many companies cover the cost of Smart Buildings training for their employees, but some just don't know it's available. We've made this free packet for you to present to your employer detailing the benefits of Smart Buildings Academy's training programs. In addition to the packet, we'll email you some tips on how to get the conversation going with management.
Remember: Your education helps improve your employer's success, so don't be shy about asking for training!
Many companies cover the cost of Smart Buildings training for their employees, but some just don't know it's available. We've made this free packet for you to present to your employer detailing the benefits of Smart Buildings Academy's training programs. In addition to the packet, we'll email you some tips on how to get the conversation going with management.
Remember: Your education helps improve your employer's success, so don't be shy about asking for training!
After one hour, people retain less than 1/2 of the information presented.
After one day, people forget more than 70% of what was taught in training.
After six days, people forget 75% of the information in their training.
SBA's courses are fully online, on-demand, and accelerated learning experiences. You can watch the lesson once or dozens of times, increasing your retention of and confidence in the material.
Each course goes through an extensive beta process with a minimum of 50 paid students prior to being rolled out. This ensures that every lesson delivers valuable insights that you can apply at work immediately.
Smart Buildings Academy also offers live office hours and a discussion board to ensure you fully understand the material. To learn more about how SBA works, schedule a training demo.
Here are some of the most common questions professionals ask prior to enrolling in our courses.
Here are just a few of the companies we have provided training to:
Albireo Energy, Alerton, Automated Logic, CBRE | ESI, Climatec, GSA, Hoffman Building Technologies, Johnson Controls, Long Building Technologies, Schneider Electric, Sunbelt Controls, Trane.
We have had 14,000+ students since November 2017 and have provided training to students on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
Smart Buildings Academy's programs are designed for all skill levels. Each module builds upon on another and assumes no prior knowledge unless explicitly states in the course description.
Our instructors have extensive real-world experience in the industry and we are accredited with IACET.
You can personally experience his knowledge and teaching ability by scheduling a training demonstration, visiting our Resources archive, listening to the 470+ podcast episodes we have recorded or exploring our YouTube channel.
The course platform hosts a message board where students can ask questions. Questions are answered within 24-hours (often faster) during normal working hours. We also have live business hours three days a week, where a student can reach an instructor to ask a question on the material or about an issue on the job related to the learning material.
From the first day you enroll employees into our courses, our student success team will begin to track their progress. We have automated weekly e-mails that are sent to them to remind them of their assigned lessons.
We can also provide status reports for these students to you via e-mail on a regular basis if required.
All of our self-paced courses can be accessed at any time over the 1-year access period.
Our Workforce Development Program does require access at specific times for live instruction.
Each course was designed to be completed in 60 days assuming the student spends 15 minutes per day on the course.
Students are able to complete it faster or take longer based on their availablility. They have up to 1 year to complete the course.
All of SBA's videos are available on our course website, which is supported by the online training platform Moodle. Upon purchasing the course your employee will receive a series of e-mails that guide them through how to access the course.
Each course is online and self-paced. As soon as you enroll your employees, they will have one year's access to the course(s).
Employees take Knowledge Checks throughout the course and a Final Exam at the end of the course.
In addition to this, each course comes with a course workbook. We recommend you use this course workbook to evaluate your employees mastery of the course material.
If you have a question we haven't answered here please send us an e-mail at support@smartbuildingsacademy.com or call us at 800-484-0113 with your question, we'd love to answer it.
I believe this course covers the basics in great detail and breaks things down into what you actually need to know. This saves a lot of time and allows you to cover more area. I also think it is very helpful that Phil is readily available for questions of any sort. All of my questions were answered within minutes.
I would highly recommend this course because of all the resources it provided me and how it taught me to use those resources. For example, all the templates that help with completing point lists, RFIs, BOMs, etc. I can now use these templates for future projects and I will be able to complete control submittals more efficiently. I also found very useful the tips for working with Visio, Excel, and Word.
I didn't realize a course like this existed, there is such a dearth of training materials in this industry and I have been so overwhelmed in starting this role. I think this course has given me a language aptitude for the industry I didn't have previously. I've highly recommended your course and structure to my colleagues and even some of my customers!